11:1And it was done: when he was in a certain place praying, as he ceased, one of his disciples said to him: "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples." 11:2And he said to them: "When you pray, say: 'Father, may your name be made holy. 11:2May your kingdom come. 11:3Give us today our daily bread. 11:4And let go for us our sins, since we ourselves too let go for everyone in debt to us. 11:4And do not lead us into temptation.'" 11:5And he said to them: "Which of you will have a friend, and will go to him in the middle of the night, and will say to him: 'Friend, lend me three loaves, since a friend of mine has come to me off the road, and I do not have anything to set before him', and he, answering from inside, should say: 'Do not be troublesome to me, the door is already shut, and my children are with me in bed: I cannot get up and give to you'?
11:8And if he perseveres in knocking: I say to you, even if he will not give to him, getting up because he is his friend, yet on account of his shamelessness he will get up, and will give him as many as he needs. 11:9And I say to you: Ask, and it will be given to you; 11:9Seek, and you will find; 11:9Knock, and it will be opened to you. 11:10For everyone who asks, receives: and whoever seeks, finds: and to the one knocking it will be opened. 11:11But which of you asks his father for bread: surely he will not give him a stone? 11:11Or a fish: surely he will not give him a serpent instead of a fish?
11:12Or if he asks for an egg, surely he will not hold out to him a scorpion? 11:13If therefore you, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more will your Father from heaven give the good spirit to those asking him?" 11:14And he was throwing out a demon, and it was mute. 11:14And when he had thrown out the demon, the mute man spoke, and the crowds wondered. 11:15But some of them said: "By Beelzebub, the prince of the demons, he throws out the demons." 11:16And others, testing him, were seeking from him a sign from heaven. 11:17But he, when he saw their thoughts, said to them: "Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and house will fall upon house.
11:18But if Satan too is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? 11:18For you say that I throw out demons by Beelzebub. 11:19But if I throw out demons by Beelzebub: by whom do your sons throw them out? 11:19Therefore they themselves will be your judges. 11:20But if by the finger of God I throw out demons: surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. 11:21When a strong man, armed, guards his courtyard, the things which he possesses are in peace. 11:22But if one stronger than he, coming upon him, overcomes him, he will take away all his arms, in which he was trusting, and will distribute his spoils.
11:23Whoever is not with me, is against me: and whoever does not gather with me, scatters. 11:24When the unclean spirit has gone out from a person, it walks through waterless places, seeking rest: and not finding it, it says: 'I will return into my house, from where I went out.' 11:25And when it has come, it finds it swept with brooms, and adorned. 11:26Then it goes, and takes with itself seven other spirits, more wicked than itself, and having gone in they dwell there. 11:26And the last things of that man become worse than the first." 11:27Now it was done, when he was saying these things: a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: "Blessed the womb which carried you, and the breasts which you sucked."
11:28But he said: "Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it." 11:29And as the crowds were running together, he began to say: "This generation, it is a wicked generation: it seeks a sign, and a sign will not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet. 11:30For just as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of Man be to this generation. 11:31The queen of the south will rise in the judgement with the men of this generation, and will condemn them: because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon: and look, more than Solomon here.
11:32The men of Nineveh will rise in the judgement with this generation, and will condemn it: because they did penance at the preaching of Jonah, and look, more than Jonah here. 11:33No one lights a lamp, and puts it in a hidden place, nor under a measuring-basket: but upon a lampstand, so that those who go in may see the light. 11:34The lamp of your body is your eye. 11:34If your eye is simple, your whole body will be full of light: but if it is wicked, your body too will be full of darkness. 11:35See therefore that the light which is in you is not darkness. 11:36If therefore your whole body is full of light, not having any part of darkness, it will be full of light, the whole of it, and like a lamp of brightness it will illuminate you."
11:37And while he was speaking, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. 11:37And having gone in, he reclined. 11:38But the Pharisee began, thinking it over within himself, to ask why he had not been washed before the meal. 11:39And the Lord said to him: "Now you Pharisees clean what is outside of the cup and of the dish: but what is inside of you is full of plunder and iniquity. 11:40Fools! 11:40Did not he who made what is outside also make that which is inside? 11:41But yet, what remains over, give as alms: and look, all things are clean for you. 11:42But woe to you, Pharisees, because you tithe mint, and rue, and every herb, and pass over judgement and the love of God: but these things you ought to have done, and not to have omitted those.
11:43Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the first chairs in the synagogues, and greetings in the market-place. 11:44Woe to you, because you are like tombs which do not appear, and people walking over them do not know it." 11:45But a certain one of the lawyers, answering, said to him: "Master, saying these things you do an insult to us also." 11:46But he said: "And to you lawyers, woe: because you load people with loads which they cannot carry, and you yourselves do not touch the packs with one finger of yours. 11:47Woe to you, who build the tombs of the prophets: but your fathers killed them. 11:48Surely you bear witness that you consent to the works of your fathers: since they indeed killed them, but you build their sepulchres.
11:49On this account also the wisdom of God said: 'I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute': so that the blood of all the prophets, which has been poured out from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation, from the blood of Abel up to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the temple. 11:51So I say to you, it will be required of this generation. 11:52Woe to you, lawyers, because you have taken away the key of knowledge: you yourselves have not gone in, and those who were going in you have hindered."
11:53And when he was saying these things to them, the Pharisees and lawyers began to press hard upon him, and to stop his mouth about many things, lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch something from his mouth, so that they might accuse him.